Carlton Curlieu

• The parish was in the Billesdon sub-district of the Billesdon Registration District.
   
• The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

Census Year	Piece No.
1841	H.O. 107 / 589
1861	R.G. 9 / 2253 & 2254
1871	R.G. 10 / 3229
1891	R.G. 12 / 2494

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
   
• The church was originally built in the Norman period.
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1685.
   
• The church was completely restored in 1880.
   
• The church seats 120.
   
• Andrew TATLOW has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2006.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1749. Earlier books have been lost.
   
• The church is in the rural deanery of Gartree (second portion).
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Billesdon sub-district of the Billesdon Registration District.
   

Carlton Curlieu is a parish and a small village and the chapelry of Illston (Ilston) on the Hill. It is about 95 miles north of London, 9 miles southeast of Leicester city and 7.5 miles northwest of Market Harborough. Burton Overy parish lies to the west and Kibworth Harcourt parish to the south. The parish covers 1,406 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, it is probably easiest to take the A6 arterial road southeast out of Leicester city through Wigston. At Kibworth Harcourt, turn left (north) and follow the country road to Carlton Curlieu.
   

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• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Carlton Curlieu to another place.

• The parish was largely pasture, with some 100 acres used for growing wheat, beans and oats.
   

• Carlton Curlieu Hall was the seat of the Lady HAZLERIGG in 1848.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP693973 (Lat/Lon: 52.56912, -0.978971), Carlton Curlieu which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
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• The place was an ancient parish of Leicester county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish is in the ancient Gartree Hundred in the southern division of the county.
   
• District governance is provided by the Harborough District Council.
   

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Billesdon Poorlaw Union.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Market Harborough petty session hearings held every other Tuesday.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	224
1841	57
1871	59
1881	69
1891	90
1901	66
1911	93
1921	74
1931	72
1961	55

• Tthe children of this parish were attending school in nearby Burton Overy.